[Pythonmac-SIG] Does anyone on the planet know how to build python-2.5 (WITH READLINE)?

Ronald Oussoren ronaldoussoren at mac.com
Fri Dec 1 17:04:03 CET 2006


On  1 Dec 2006, at 2:49 AM, Gary Poster wrote:

>
> On Nov 15, 2006, at 2:32 PM, Todd Thal wrote:
>
>> I am having one "hades" of a heckuva time getting readline support  
>> for
>> Python-2.5 on a Mac OS 10.4.8.8.0
>
> Thanks to Ronald and Skip for replying to this thread.  It took me a
> little bit to connect the dots from their replies, so I thought I'd
> share my experiences.  Maybe this can help someone, and maybe also
> lead to Ronald or someone else clarifying the right way to use his
> CFLAGS and LDFLAGS patch.
>
> I'm using darwinports, so first I had to
>
> sudo port install readline
>
> Once that was done, I wanted to build a local, non-framework Python
> with readline.  darwinports uses /opt/local, so Ronald's approach led
> me to this best guess:
>
> $ CFLAGS=-I/opt/local/include LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib ./configure --
> prefix=/Users/gary/py

This should do the trick, more or less. The build script for the  
python.org installer uses:

./configure --prefix=/Users/gary/py LDFLAGS=-L/opt/local/lib OPT=-I/ 
opt/local/include

> $ make

If you're using macports you might as well do 'port install python2.4'.

Ronald

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